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This book is about inspiration. It's about hope. It's about dealing with failure. Dealing with setbacks. Ron was no different. There were people who were there to encourage him. Ron had to experience all those things in a very real way, and often times by the grace of God, he was able to go forward.

This book falls under the category of "stuff I know," as opposed to "stuff I need to learn".

All of our books have to qualify under the vision of creating a world that works for all.

Amazon (is) selling everything from garden appliances and apparel to electronics and used books. But bigger isn't always better from a customer's viewpoint.

A lot of the traditional business books are still struggling. It is a crowded cluster of magazines of which there are some underperformers. So it is a curiosity.

A lot of what I do in the book is debunk these conspiracy theories,

A lot of times we come to check out books, look at books. It's been a good winter activity to get out of the house.

They had not been viewed as demigods in the newsroom. Only after the book, and really after the movie, did it become clear that their celebrity was a little over the top.

They essentially own the books now, and we're working with them on the international bid.

There seems to be a lot of eating, wine drinking and self-introspection going on. Those books are doing very well.

There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.

As more consumers realize the safety and convenience online sports books provide, the Internet will continue to be the destination of choice for betting on major sporting events like the NCAA tournament.

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, ... There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get excited how he can discover things through books is pretty phenomenal.

A book containing this offensive poem should not be included in any textbook,

The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.

It's a worry on the minds of local business owners. But, unless local businesses open their books and share that information with us, we don't have any specific data available.

It's a book waiting to be written. We're in that position to put him in the Super Bowl. A lot of guys just want to go out and play not only for themselves, but for a guy like Jerome Bettis.

It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries' budget for new books from the county has been cut by 80 percent this year.

It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist.

It might be a little tougher to get a seat, but not a lot because you can always book in advance.

It's a picture book. No story. Just photographs of a little boy growing up with a cheetah. We had to concoct a story. Actually, I stole part of the idea of the trek from a movie that I got fired off of many years ago, 'A Far Off Place,' where a boy takes a travel trip with a little Bushman guy.

I tried to get them to book a flight into Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and they just said, 'There are no flights,'

It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative.

It's not just about the promotional offers. People have so much information thrown at them, especially in books, where there are hundreds of thousands of new books published each year. The challenge is in how you bubble up the best choices for them.

It's not like selling books on the Internet, ... This is new and different and no one has done this before. ... We believe that lots of other people have made a business out of providing these messages and providing the medium. We don't see any reason why it won't be the same for the Internet.

For book purposes you spread it over many years, but for tax purposes, you can get it in the first year. So you can get a big tax benefit and it boosts earnings.

For anyone who's read the books, it will be really fun to see the characters come alive. We believe we've captured the essence of those characters and the essence of those books.

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

It's one thing to put this business on the books. It's far more important to maximize the profit from it.

It started in January 1998 on a total whim. I didn't want to write another book. I wanted to do something fun on the Web to relax.

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.

It's an opportunity to create something over time that would potentially make a big difference to books, literacy, and reading.

It's a pretty difficult situation all around. We're throwing the book at it.

It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.

It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.

It's basically an admission that Amazon can sell books really well over the Internet, but they can't sell phones very well.

It's really kind of shocking. I mean it's not common for publishers to pull a book before there's any sort of legal discussion.

It's probably way too late now to book a flight on the Concorde, but people can still get the high-end treatment with executive jet leasing programs, ... A few of these companies are offering deals for about $5,000 that include a flight across the country, a night at the luxury hotel and formal dinner. If you've got the financial wherewithal to spend that kind of money, there are any number of ways to do it.

Then We gave the Book for an inheritance to those whom We chose from among Our servants; but of them is he who makes his soul to suffer a loss, and of them is he who takes a middle course, and of them is he who is foremost in deeds of goodness by Allah's permission; this is the great excellence.

Everybody has lots of books that are slightly used and garden magazines. You used it once and don't need it anymore, but somebody else could use it.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.

Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book.

The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.

The books, representing writers from Egypt, Brazil, Europe, Canada and the United States, will explore what it means to belong, a theme that transcends many cultures and experiences.

The books have to be bad news. I don't think (Weld) is a crook or anything like that, that's silly.

The books are not a straight line to the corner office. But they're going to help you figure out where you want to go.

The book on Pratt is he's a solid, steady defenseman. He can move the puck. He's got pretty good mobility. He's a veteran defenseman.

The book itself is not filled with sensational revelations, ... It's filled with a new explanation of what went wrong with that marriage.

The book is about creating new opportunities for voters.

The book industry has been deeply embarrassed and I think that her show pointed up the disconnect between publishing and the real world.

The Award aims to provide a definitive guide to what's worth reading amongst the deluge of business books published each year. I think my fellow judges will agree that it has provoked a fascinating debate so far. It proved challenging to identify business books which met the criteria of being both compelling and enjoyable, but we believe we have identified six very strong contenders for the top prize.

It's a matter of what are our priorities as a nation. Obviously, our priorities are guns and not books.

It's an admission of the books into perpetuity.

I've got a huge collection of books I haven't even read yet because I've been so busy over the years. I want to travel. I love going out West, going to Maine.

I've got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.

never reads books and I just started reading one because I had nothing else to do. I have problems going outside because if I get too overheated I pass out. Once the roads were cleaned out you couldn't drive because there wasn't gas. Once they did open up the gas stations the lines were a mile long. I siphoned gas out of the lawn mower into the car so I could go to the store and try to get stuff.

It was one of the first grown-up books I ever went out and bought. God knows why. He says in his book that his work was based entirely on a sense of duty. And his attitude and physical ability to separate it from his life is clear. Plus it is predicated on something we have forgotten about in modern society, which is an absolute sense of duty to God, King and country. He knew that his father and uncle took pride in the job.

It used to be that a book changed editions every five years.

It will be nice to be in the record books, I guess, but it's not really a great big deal,

They changed the title of the book, but it is the same book. They still haven't rectified any of the legal problems of the statute of limitations, of the staleness of the charges.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

The visitation policy hasn't changed (in the books). There is a policy on the books that visitation Sunday night through Thursday night ends at midnight and then weekends it is 24 hours. So, it's not that the policy is not there. If there is a problem, a roommate conflict or something like that, the policy is still in place and can be enforced.

They want us to have our books picked out by mid-semester of fall for our spring classes. But many of us don't even know what we'll be teaching yet.

They violated every rule in the book. I've studied feeding frenzies. This is a classic feeding frenzy, and it was created in part by their inability to get the news out. You have to tell the truth, and you need to get the facts out completely as soon as possible. This was a public-relations disaster because they didn't do that.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works

It was a fluke that between Christmas and New Year's of 1945 and 1946, I put my books down, turned on the radio and heard the worst drama I had ever heard, ever. It got my dander up because I had done some speaking and a little bit of acting.

I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

I want to illustrate children's books and write them. It's very difficult to get into, it's very competitive. I really haven't spent much time doing it, maybe two to three years.

Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online.

The last chapter hasn't been written in this book.

The intent of Sarbanes-Oxley was to serve the shareholders, to ensure whatever books and records a public company keeps are transparent.

The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.

Their initial reaction was, 'You should burn that book. You should bury it. The last thing you want to do is a documentary about it,

I'm real happy my name is in the record book, but it means nothing because we lost.

I learned every good consultant must have a book.

I'm a fan. My grandchildren are fans. I wish I'd written the books.

Indeed, it's not feasible to do the sort of thorough fact-checking that some books may require, in terms of both money and time. We do go back to authors over and over again, getting them to confirm facts and questioning the veracity of their stories, but sometimes it's just not possible.

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

I like the books because the heroines don't do what others want them to, they do what they want.

I liked that the book brought von Braun to the surface. People didn't know much about him. He was a very gracious man who did some amazing things.

I'm reading six, seven, eight books at a time.

I'm excited about having this ordinance on the books.

I have noted the growing market for HR books.

I have no idea what's in the book. I handled it last year and I've gone forward from that.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

I haven't always done things this way. It's the nature of the two books. They have been so consuming that I end up living inside them.

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

In each of my books a character begins to take over.

I'm calling it the book review of the decade.

I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose counts towards their tally for rewards. It's all about reading for pleasure.

If you read these books and follow these steps, you are going to improve your chances of achieving your goal,

If you look at the numbers, you can tell the NIT went strictly by the book.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.

I like to read. I'm going to read my book.

I reckon it would take you 40 hours to read the first book out loud. Cutting that to three hours -- well, what can you do? The answer is, abridge, ... If you know the story, you can see them skipping.